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Three Hang songs to say good bye to the year 2008, all played on a Low Hang Pygmy, high voice. Klick on the pictures to listen.

The List of stolen Hanghang
is now filed in the Hang Library.

PANArt now offers a backpack for the Integral Hang similar to the former backpacks for the second generation Hanghang. The new backpack is waterproof and used together with the hard case. It will be ready for delivery in a few weeks.

Thanks to pulpfiction1 from the Hang-Music Forum for the permission to use his pictures.

This video features a first generation Zhi Diao from 2003, a Low Hang in Pygmy Bb High Voice from 2005 and a second generation Hang from 2007.

Listening to this arrangement you are able to follow the journey of the Hang through the years from a steelpan like percussion instrument played with the hands to a sound sculpture going beyond the scope of percussion. This shows why the Hang Makers don’t like their creation being called a “hang drum“.

Thanks Frank for filming and cutting the video!

Saturday night the new Integral Hang introduced by PANArt in February 2008 joined a familiy reunion with some of its older siblings in a little town near Darmstadt, Germany.

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The Hang Lexicon offers explanations of key words in alphabetical order.

Since End of April 2010 you will find “The Hang Lexicon”
in the Hang Library.

It was 14 months ago, in November 2006, when the Hangblog started as a little German Weblog about the Hang. In the meantime it grows up and became a bilingual place for Hang related topics with English and German content and more than 10,000 visitors per month. So I decided that it was time for a new appearance. I hope the new design makes it easier for the readers to find the information they are searching for.

At the request of the hang makers from PANArt the hangblog publishes two new Hang papers written for the International Symposium on Musical Acoustics, ISMA 2007, 9-12th September in Barcelona, where the Hang was presented by Felix Rohner, Sabina Schärer and Thomas D. Rossing.

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In western music overtones are experienced as an aspect of the timbre of a musical instrument. In Asian music overtones are listened as discrete tones above the fundamental frequency. Overtone singers use the overtones of the human voice to create melody lines above the fundamental tone.

The Hang is a musical instrument with strong overtones. The Ding and each tone field are tuned in a special way. Besides the fundamental frequency the first and second overtone, the octave and the compound fifth (the quint above the octave) are tuned in.

You can discover these overtones by tapping on different areas of the tone fields. After Exploring the Hang’s overtones, you will begin to hear the overtone music above your Hang music.

Read the article “Discover the Hang’s Overtones”
in the Hang Library.

Here you can download a Flying Hanghang Wallpaper (1024×768 Pixel).